Describes special program at the University of Denver funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities to design and offer intensive interdisciplinary courses on cultures separated from our own by time and/or space. (Author/BK)

The cultures of the science community and the humanities community misunderstand each other at the core, but there is more misunderstanding on the part of humanists about science than the reverse. If humanists insist that technical specialists study ethics and esthetics, what are the humanists prepared to study in return? (Author/MSE)

Notes four common concerns which could serve as a basis for cooperation between global and multicultural educators. Common concerns are understanding the function of groups in our society, how people form images of ethnic groups, and global interrelatedness and developing skills for living in a diverse world. (KC)

Challenges the identification of literacy with intelligence and abstract reasoning ability. Suggests nonverbal projects as a way of broadening the definition of intelligence in the English classroom. A bibliography is included. (DF)

The transdisciplinary approach to the education of handicapped preschool children involves frequent meetings between team members and parents. The meetings address the areas of assessment, diagnosis and goal setting, planning and program implementation, and evaluation of both the program and the child. (PHR)

The author suggests that teaching the skill of writing should be on a school-wide basis. Listed are annotated resources which reflect practical ideas for teaching writing beyond the English classroom. (KC)

To make mainstreaming a functional process, the cooperation, support, and shared expertise of both vocational educators and special educators are required. (SK)

Discusses three books which focus on educational reform in higher education. These books are "The Perpetual Dream: Reform and Experiment in the American College" (Grant and Riesman), "Interdisciplinarity and Higher Education" (Rockelmans, editor), and "Higher Education and Government" (Furniss and Gardener, editors). (KC)

Discusses the growing areas of behavioral medicine and behavioral health. Traces the developments leading to the establishment of the American Psychological Association's Health Psychology Division and activities on the national level that have led to the development of organizations with a more interdisciplinary focus. (Author/MK)

The article describes how an integrated studies course at an English secondary school is helping to meet the multicultural needs of handicapped students. The 2-year course covers English, history, geography, religious education, and social studies and comprises about half of the students' day. (PHR)

Describes an interdisciplinary faculty writing workshop at Michigan Technological University, which was designed to provide the teachers with a set of general pedagogical principles about teaching writing. (HOD)

Presents an art history class that incorporates writing (primarily poetry) to complement the study of art as expression. (HTH)

The notion that the interdisciplinary enterprise involves abandoning a discipline for a consistently holistic stance is critiqued. It is suggested that there are ways of exploring interdisciplinary relationships from the perspective of a discipline. (MLW)

Briefly considers four levels of intellectual integration and synthesis of knowledge and then, based on the fourth level, presents a model of faculty development in which an interdisciplinary team is granted release time to address a common intellectual goal. Presents factors influencing teacher participation in and benefits from interdisciplinary…

When a therapist becomes a courtroom witness, he often is in unfamiliar territory. This article reviews trial preparation and illustrates examination and cross-examination, opinion testimony, and hypothetical questions. Rules of effective response to cross-examination are set forth to aid therapists in providing meaningful, credible testimony…